Clare Balding has signed up to host a new BBC One show about cutting edge veterinary surgery.
Balding and her co-host Steve Leonard - who launched his career after appearing in Vet School - will travel around the world to find out about the latest operations, which have never been seen on television before.
The procedures are often adapted from human medicine and include keyhole brain surgery for a moon bear in Laos called Champa and a skin graft for white rhino Thandi, who was attacked for her horn and is now being treated by a plastic surgeon who usually operates on people.
Elsewhere, vets will give dolphin Fuji a prosthetic tail after it was destroyed by an infection, and a giant panda from China will be given an Mri scan to find out why she is behaving oddly.
"Being an animal lover, I jumped at the opportunity to be...
Balding and her co-host Steve Leonard - who launched his career after appearing in Vet School - will travel around the world to find out about the latest operations, which have never been seen on television before.
The procedures are often adapted from human medicine and include keyhole brain surgery for a moon bear in Laos called Champa and a skin graft for white rhino Thandi, who was attacked for her horn and is now being treated by a plastic surgeon who usually operates on people.
Elsewhere, vets will give dolphin Fuji a prosthetic tail after it was destroyed by an infection, and a giant panda from China will be given an Mri scan to find out why she is behaving oddly.
"Being an animal lover, I jumped at the opportunity to be...
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- Digital Spy
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- by Sean
- FilmJunk
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